Examples of Twenty-first Amendment in the following topics:
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- First, given the opening of new territories in the West for white settlement, many non-slaveowners perceived a possibility that they, too, might own slaves at some point in their life.
- Since inheritance in the South was often unequitable (and generally favored eldest sons), it was not uncommon for a poor white person to be perhaps the first cousin to the richest plantation owner of his county and to share the same militant support of slavery as his richer relatives.
- Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
- Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution.
- Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed on December 5, 1933, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.
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- On October 28, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S.
- Ironically, this dispute over ethics during the "Roaring Twenties" led
to a sudden groundswell of criminal activity, with those who opposed legal alcohol
sales unintentionally enabling the growth of vast criminal organizations that
controlled the illegal sale and distribution of alcohol and a number of related
activities including gambling and prostitution.
- The
18th Amendment had outlawed "intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes"
but did not set a limit on alcohol content, which the Volstead Act did by establishing
a limit of .5% alcohol per unit.
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December 5, 1933, ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the
Eighteenth Amendment.
- In a positive
epilogue, however, the overall consumption of alcohol dropped and remained
below pre-Prohibition levels long after the Eighteenth Amendment ceased to be
law.
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- In most major countries, women had the opportunity to
vote for the first time.
- The
Roaring Twenties was a fruitful period for the arts, music and writing.
- Radio became the first mass broadcasting medium during the 1920s.
- The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.
- Prohibition continued until its repeal in the Twenty-first
Amendment to the Constitution in 1933.
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- The 14th Amendment provided the foundation of equal rights for all U.S. citizens, including African-Americans.
- The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified in 1865.
- The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868, was the second of three Reconstruction Amendments.
- First, to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to be unconstitutional for lack of congressional authority to enact such a law and, second, to prevent a future Congress from altering it by a mere majority vote.
- The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.
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- The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
- On November 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify these amendments.
- On December 15, 1791, ten of the proposals became the First through Tenth Amendments—and U.S. law—when they were ratified by the Virginia legislature.
- First Amendment: establishment clause, free exercise clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition.
- Portrait of James Madison, "Father of the Constitution" and first author of the Bill of Rights
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- Congress asserted its authority to legislate about civil rights under three parts of the United States Constitution: its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws (under the Fourteenth Amendment), and its duty to protect voting rights (under the Fifteenth Amendment).
- In his first address to Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."
- Goldwater had supported previous attempts to pass Civil Rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 as well as the 24th Amendment outlawing the poll tax; however, he rejected the idea of the national government regulating such acts.
- In January 1964, the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, prohibiting the imposition of poll taxes on voters, was finally ratified.
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- The Bill of Rights refers to the first ten amendments of the Constitution that outlines the basic freedoms held by American citizens.
- The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
- First Amendment: establishment clause, free exercise clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition.
- Eighth Amendment: prohibits of excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.
- James Madison, "Father of the Constitution" and first author of the Bill of Rights
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- The Thirteenth Amendment (banning slavery), Fourteenth Amendment (guaranteeing the civil rights of former slaves and ensuring equal protection of the laws), and Fifteenth Amendment (prohibiting the denial of the right to vote on grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude) enshrined such political rights in the Constitution.
- While the elite planter class often supported insurgencies, violence against freedmen and other Republicans was often carried out by other whites; insurgency took the form of the secret Ku Klux Klan in the first years after the war.
- Before they could make their way, they and five to twenty black witnesses were assassinated by white paramilitary.
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- Women's suffrage in the United States was established over the course of several decades, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920.
- By the time of the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, however, suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement's activities.
- The first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869 when two competing organizations were formed, one led by Susan B.
- Congress and in state legislatures, the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the U.S.
- Widely known as the "antis", they eventually created organizations in some twenty states.